In London that year, Queen Victoria became the first British ruler to travel by train. In Richmond, 14-year-old Alexander Hamilton Sands went to work in his brother’s Richmond law office, leaving his ...

Virji Vora, Shanti Das Zaviri, Mullah Abdul Gafar, Jagat Seth — who functioned as billionaires of their age, dealing in ...

Medical care in 2012 is unrecognizable as compared with what it was in 1812, and no 19th-century physician would be at home in a modern hospital. A 19th-century lawyer, however, would be ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim origins and a Spaghetti Western-sounding moniker.